Background: Health systems are required to examine achievement of the goals based on appropriate frameworks. Assessment of health system in a country provides an opportunity to address the main mission through recognizing new needs and resolving existing gaps. Then this review study examines Iran’s health systems achievement of the goals set by the World Health Organization’s conceptual framewo...

There are two approaches which investors can exercise when using accounting information are commonly discussed, either to the use of financial reporting to value the company or the use of financial reporting to assess the management's stewardship of the company. Despite the fact that US GAAP, IFRS, and UK GAAP are all market oriented sets of accounting standards, both FASB and IASB are more inc...

Focusing only on shareholders’ financial return is not consistent with the concept of sustainable corporate governance. In contrast to financial performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a non-financial performance index. Financial reports consist of both financial and non-financial disclosures. These disclosures help investors make decisions. This paper characterizes the interactio...

INTRODUCTION In 1994, the Canadian urology residency training programs designed the "Canadian Urology Fair"--a single-site (Toronto, Ont.), 1-day fair to conduct the personal interview portion of the residency selection process. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the success of the Urology Fair in achieving its original goals of decreasing the financial burden and minimizing tim...

A concept of financial prediction system is considered in this paper. By integrating multidimensional data technology (data warehouse, OLAP) and case-based reasoning, we are able to predict financial trends and provide enough data for business decision making. Methodology has been successfully used and tested in the management information system of "Novi Sad Fair".